The Rwanda Bill has entered the Report Stage in the Lords and will have amendments voted on tonight and on Wednesday. After a soft-touch interview with anti-Rwanda Lord Anderson, who argues that the bill will “pass into law a politically convenient fiction which has been exposed as such by the Supreme Court“, Mishal Husain took issue with Michael Howard’s explanation of Parliamentary Sovereignty. That is – the courts’ role is to review decisions, not to make them…

When Howard explained that “Parliament is fully entitled to put things right that it thinks the court has got wrong“, Husain’s deeply thought-out response was: “Can Parliament say black is white?“. Obviously, if Parliament passes any bill, it is then accountable to the electorate, unlike the Supreme Court, which it is clear “isn’t accountable to anyone“. It is always useful to re-establish the basics of parliamentary democracy…